Proverbs 29:18

"Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint;

but blessed is he who keeps the law."

Proverbs 29:18

Revelation from God is I think one of the greatest driving force for people who are believers. Each step of the way I need to know where God is leading me, what He is teaching, where He wants me to be, what He wants me to do. This might sound self-centered but I think God knows that we as human being responds to what should be and what could be.

God revealing Himself to us through Jesus Christ His Son and now through his Word through the powerful work of illumination by the Holy Spirit, allows us to be shaped and be redeemed to what God wanted us to be when he created us. If God really created us to have an intimate relationship with him and it captures a saved soul and really believed that the God who created the universe wants an intimate relationship with him or her, it changes him/her. If God has sent us on a mission to all nations because worship of Him does not exist in all nations, and if someone really believes that the God who orchestrated everything so that though a hell-bound sin-bearer could not only come clean but be infused with the righteousness of His Son who died for the payment, it rocks his or her world because it makes him see that this God deserves all the praises and glory of all nations and all peoples and every creature in this planet. 

That is why when revelation from God when it is not conveyed passionately, when it is not imparted intentionally, people back off and live lives that is as small as the god that they have created in their own image. It puts little value to the saving work and the worthiness of God because God is just a puny God, and his revelation for us is little of value so that many of us would just sit idly wait for His return--saved, seated, and satisfied--living without real passion for the God who has gone through lengths so that all would be given privilege once again to be what all He created us to be. They cast of restraint--restraint to the purposes of the God-sized God.

Keeping the law--abiding, meditating, being passionate and believing it to the core is what really blessed a man or a woman. It keeps us laser focused to the mind and the heart of God. It makes us abandon all comforts in life so that the purposes of the God of the universe will be on earth as it is in heaven.

So in writing these, God I pray that You would remind me of the foolishness of my everyday routine,  the mediocrity of my passionless servitude that I do in Your name and the carefree attitude approach to life. You have given us revelation--and it's You, Your purposes, Your glory, Your mission--it's all about You.

Lord, I want to live a life that counts for eternity, I also want that this revelation would transform me into a passionate, vision-centric leader that would pull people out of their comfort zones and lead them to God-sized lives You have created us to enjoy. 

Living the life with the revelation from God is tough, yes it is, it cuts to the core and stretches people to their limits, but living the comfortable restrained Christian life is scarier--it costed about 2 million people to wander in the desert for 40 years until their all dead--I do not want that to happen in my life nor do I want that to happen to any of the people I am accountable to.